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1. [New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17919031W/New_Dark_Age) by James Bridle
2. [Gorilla and the Bird](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19718805W/Gorilla_and_the_bird) by Zack McDermott
3. [The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20290452W/The_Utopia_of_Rules) by David Graeber
4. [White Fang](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74504W/White_Fang) by Jack London
5. [Calypso](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19751285W/Calypso) by David Sedaris
6. [An Everlasting Meal](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27620927M/An_Everlasting_Meal) by Tamar Adler
7. [A Moveable Feast](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL63064W/A_moveable_feast) by Ernest Hemingway
8. [Defending Jacob](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17308089W/Defending_Jacob) by William Landay
9. [The Library Book](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17930369W/The_Library_Book) by Susan Orlean
10. [Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20481160W/Drive_Your_Plow_Over_The_Bones_Of_The_Dead) by Olga Tokarczuk
11. [The Talented Mr. Ripley](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15845435W/The_talented_Mr._Ripley) by Patricia Highsmith
12. [The Understory](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4407310W/The_Understory) by Pamela Erens
13. [How to Take Smart Notes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18635700W/How_to_Take_Smart_Notes) by Sönke Ahrens
14. [Down and Out in Paris and London](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1168030W/Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_London) by George Orwell
15. [Something Old, Something New](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19745541W/Something_old_something_new) by Tamar Adler
16. [Rats Saw God](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1963790W/Rats_saw_God) by Rob Thomas
17. [The Fault in Our Stars](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25438989M/The_Fault_in_Our_Stars) by John Greene
18. [Where the Crawdads Sing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18766691W/Where_the_Crawdads_Sing) by Delia Owens
19. [The Diary of a Young Girl](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2948954W/The_diary_of_a_young_girl) by Anne Frank
20. [The Professor and the Madman](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1840032W/The_professor_and_the_madman) by Simon Winchester

    **Marginalia**:

    * pg 29: There is a "veritable academic industry" of people decrying
      the OED as racist and sexist.
    * pg 45: The "madman"/W.C. Minor's forebearers founded the state of Connecticut
    * pg 55: Irish immigrants fought in the civil war, but  were often
      used as canon fodder.
    * pg 73: The phrase "Look something up" didn't appear in English until
      1692
    * pg 79: Part of the philological society's motivation for supporting
      the creation of the OED was imperialism
    * pg 84: In 1746, 5 London booksellers contracted with Samuel Johnson
      to write his dictionary which he published in 1755 in an almost
      entirely singular effort
    * pg 93: Richard Chenevix Trench conceived of the OED in a speech in
      1857 stating the it would be "the combined action of many"
      volunteers.
    * pg 119: The system of collecting quotations for the OED was to put
      the "catchword" in the upper left of a half-sheet of writing paper.
      Underneath you write the date, author, title, and page number
      followed by the full quotation using the catchword.

21. [From Bauhaus to Our House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1925471W/From_Bauhaus_to_our_house) by Tom Wolfe

    **Marginalia**:

    * pg 14: Art became a form of clarisy in the 20th century, you had to
      understand theory to understand art, "There were no manifestos in the
      world of art prior to the twentieth century"
    * pg 17: International style favored labor; however, it favored
      machine-made objects vs handmade artisan objects as in the Arts and
      Crafts movement in England "proved" that only the rich could afford such
      items.
    * pg 24: Le Corbusier called his houses "machines for living"
    * pg 26: Stalin: "Engineers of his soul"
    * pg 32: The Museum of Modern Art was founded by John D Rockefeller, Jr.
    * pg 44: "The fundamental pedagogical mistake of the academy arose from its
      preoccupation with the idea of the individual genius" - Walter Gropius
    * pg 72: Frank Lloyd Wright, "catered to the hog-stomping Baroque
      exuberance of American civilization" (this is a magical phrase)
    * pg 108: Venturi's definition of architecture, "shelter with decoration on
      it"
    * pg 109: You can't take on a new fashion by calling it ugly; you have
      to acknowledge it and create a still more avant-garde style.

22. [The Death and Life of Great American Cities](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/067974195X) by Jane Jacobs
23. [The Overstory](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20163028W/The_Overstory) by Richard Powers
24. [The City We Became](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/0316509841) by N.K. Jemisin

